I think your speech should also point out the inconsistencies regarding free speech and cencorship depending on whom the speakers are and the context in which they are addressing or rebutting a topic.
For instance in the media, people of a culture can freely speak their opinions and if those opinions are seen as racist or hateful,they are often chastised and scorned for their ignorances.
However when rebutted by those who feel targeted by this free speech,they inturn levy the same racist sentiments to a mostly silent audience.
In other words,especially when two cultures have a history of discontent, the rhetoric spewed by both sides is practically a mirror image, yet one culture endures as something better or different although both are equally responsibly in their words of choice.
Knowing that free speech and cencorship depends on set political and social agendas regarding those who will triumph from it, they to will also be the people who scream the loudest when it works against them. Something like do as I say,not as I do.
And this should never be viewed as political correctness. Political correctness has very little to do in the power struggle over the war of words especially when the media is involved. Picking sides through bogus, biased, subjectivities is more the norm.
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" In Canada, you can tell the most blatant lie in a calm voice, and people will believe you over someone who's a little passionate about the truth." David Warren, Western Standard.
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